Herb Wyile provides a comparative analysis of the historical concerns and textual strategies of twenty novels published since the appearance of Rudy Wiebe's groundbreaking The Temptations of Big Bear in 1973. Drawing on the work of theorists and critics such as Hayden White, Mikhail Bakhtin, Fredric Jameson, Linda Hutcheon, and Michel De Certeau, Speculative Fictions examines the nature of these novels' engagement with Canadian history, historiography, and the writing of historical fiction.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- C813/.08109054
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn---
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- 0773523154 9780773569898
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- PS8191.H5
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- W94 2002eb
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- 1 electronic text (xvii, 316 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)gtp00521457 (OCoLC)244764395 (CaOOCEL)400178
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Table of Contents
- Contents 5
- Illustrations 7
- Acknowledgments 9
- Preface 11
- History Theory and the Contemporary Canadian Historical Novel 21
- Historical Sites 52
- The Content of the Form Textual Strategies 156
- Speculating in Fiction Commodity Culture and the Crisis of Historicity 232
- Period Piece 274
- Notes 285
- Bibliography 315
- Index 329
